Tupac quotes

Born
June 16, 1971 East Harlem, New York City, New York, U.S.

Died
September 13, 1996.

Occupation
Rapper.

Tupac was an American rapper. Tupac sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.
– Tupac

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
– Tupac

It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
– Tupac

With all my fans I got a family again.
– Tupac

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
– Tupac

I’ll probably be punished for hard living.
– Tupac

Thug Life to me is dead.
– Tupac

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
– Tupac

I’m a reflection of the community.
– Tupac

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
– Tupac

I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
– Tupac

Let the Lord judge the criminals.
– Tupac

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
– Tupac

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
– Tupac

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn’t commit.
– Tupac

Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
– Tupac

I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
– Tupac

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
– Tupac

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
– Tupac

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
– Tupac

I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.
– Tupac

All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
– Tupac

There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
– Tupac

My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
– Tupac

America wants its respect.
– Tupac

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
– Tupac

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad.
– Tupac